https://erik-engheim.medium.com/go-does-not-need-a-java-style-gc-ac99b8d26c60

Get started
Open in app
 
Erik Engheim

Sign in

Get started
 
8.7K Followers
About
Get started
Open in app
 

Go Does Not Need a Java Style GC

Why does Go not need a fancy expensive garbage collector like Java
and C#?

 
Erik Engheim
 

Erik Engheim

 

May 1*17 min read

[1]

Modern languages such as Go, Julia and Rust don't need complex
garbage collectors like the ones use by Java C#. But why?

To explain why, we need to get into how garbage collectors work and
how different languages allocate memory in different ways. However,
we...